Isla Casayeta, Pearl Islands (Oligocene to of Panama)

Where: Panama (8.5° N, 79.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (27.3 - 16.0 Ma)

• "Upper Oligocene or Lower Miocene"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.E. Terry; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1937. Cretaceous and Tertiary Crabs from Panama and Colombia. Journal of Paleontology 11(1):26-28 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136135: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 20.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Montezumellidae
Montezumella casayetensis n. sp. Rathbun 1937 crab